This is an app that we built for the UK’s home education community. Home educators in the UK have to provide evidence of the education they are providing to local authorities. For many home educators this is becoming increasingly stress so we decided to provide them with a simple way of recording, storing and sharing the information they needed.
The app built on the WeeklyReports app we’d created for foster carers as many of the issues where the same.
To ensure the security of data we took the following steps:
- All user accounts were secured using multi factor authentication (MFA) with advanced threat detection.
- All user data was encrypted using AES256 with a key management store using hardware security modules (HSMs) that are validated under FIPS 140-2. We used annual key rotation.
- Encrypt all data locally on device before it is uploaded to the backend. All data is also encrypted at rest.
- Use of Amazon Web Services Guardduty as a security monitoring service that analyses and processes all system logs. This service uses threat intelligence feeds, such as lists of malicious IP addresses and domains, and machine learning to identify unexpected, potentially unauthorised, and malicious activity.
To allow for simple data entry we developed an IOS and Android app for end users. We implemented a tagging system that would allow data to be simply and easily categorised by activity and subject. We also implemented graphical feedback on subject coverage to help educators achieve balance.